NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools IL

Best-Resourced Schools in Sycamore, IL

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7 public K-12 schools in Sycamore from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
3,720
Students
41/100
Avg Resource Index
14.8:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Sycamore has more public-school enrollment than 40% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Sycamore's 7 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Sycamore's 7 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 20-point gap between North Grove Elementary School and Sycamore High School shows the range hidden by Sycamore's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 60%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
50th percentile
Teacher staffing
57th percentile

Sycamore High School accounts for 31.2% of all Sycamore public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Sycamore-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sycamore school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities

Sycamore school enrollment ranges from 270 students (lowest) to 1,161 students (highest), a spread of 891 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sycamore operates one school district — a single-district system

Sycamore's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Sycamore student-teacher ratio is 14.8:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Sycamore is typically wider than the Sycamore-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. North Grove Elementary School 48
2. Southeast Elem School 47
3. South Prairie Elementary School 44
4. West Elem School 43
5. North Elementary School 40
6. Sycamore Middle School 37
7. Sycamore High School 28

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Sycamore

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 West Elem School 52.2/100
  2. 2 South Prairie Elementary School 46.1/100
  3. 3 Southeast Elem School 38.8/100
  4. 4 Sycamore Middle School 38.3/100
  5. 5 Sycamore High School 35.2/100

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Which Sycamore school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

North Grove Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Sycamore schools in this federal-data comparison at 48/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Sycamore, IL? ▼

Sycamore has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,720 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.8:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.